Shane Watson: With friends like these

Boxing Day, once the slowest day in the calendar year, now marks the start of the big friendship sweep-up

Boxing Day. Phew, Christmas cheer over. All we have to do now is slob around
in our new Kigus, picking at cold turkey and sucking Turkish delight in
front of Twilight DVDs. No? Thought not. Because Boxing Day, once the
slowest day in the calendar year, now marks the start of the big friendship
sweep-up. The clock is ticking and there are only six days to fit in any
significant leftover mates before the year is up.

You must be ready to drive across the country, stopping off for lunch here,
spending the night there (nowhere near), and the same again the following
day, for as long as it takes.

You will need presents for children, bottles of cava, panettone tied with
silky bows, several changes of clothes (including things to walk in) and a
bottomless supply of festive cheer. If you thought the week before Christmas
was as knackering